Bernd Hansjürgens

Bernd Hansjürgens (* 1961 in Olpe ) is a German economist . Since 1999 he has been professor of economics , in particular environmental economics, at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and at the same time head of the economics department at the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research (UFZ) in Leipzig .

Live and act

From 1981 to 1986, Hansjürgens first studied sociology and then economics at the University of Marburg . In 1991 he received his doctorate on the subject of environmental taxes in the tax system . Between 1995 and 1997 he was a postdoctoral fellow from the German Research Foundation and completed his habilitation in 1998 on the subject of the principle of equivalence and state funding .

In 1999 there was a joint appointment as Professor of Environmental Economics at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and Head of the Economics Department of the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research (UFZ) in Leipzig . Since 2015 he has shared the management of the department with Erik Gawel . Since 2017 he has also been head of the UFZ's Environment and Society department . From 2004 to 2013 he was also the spokesman for the Terrestrial Environment research program of the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centers .

Hansjürgens' main research areas include a. Environmental Economics, New Institutional Economics and Public Finance . He dealt intensively with climate policy (in particular emissions trading ) and is involved in the TEEB project of the United Nations . a. as head of studies of Natural Capital Germany - TEEB DE . He is a member of numerous committees; u. a. he is the chairman of the soil protection commission of the German Federal Environment Agency and a member of the Leibniz Association's Senate Evaluation Committee .

Selected publications

• Guy Pe'er , Aletta Bonn , Helge Bruelheide, Petra Dieker, Nico Eisenhauer , Peter H. Feindt, Gregor Hagedorn , Bernd Hansjürgens, Irina Herzon, Ângela Lomba, Elisabeth Marquard, Francisco Moreira, Heike Nitsch, Rainer Oppermann, Andrea Perino, Norbert Röder, Christian Schleyer, Stefan Schindler, Christine Wolf, Yves Zinngrebe, Sebastian Lakner: Action needed for the EU Common Agricultural Policy to address sustainability challenges. Volume 2 . 2020, p. 305-316 .
• Wolfgang Benkert, Jürgen Bunde, Bernd Hansjürgens: Environmental Policy with Eco Taxes? Ecological and financial conditions for new environmental taxes . Metropolis, Marburg 1991.
• Bernd Hansjürgens: Environmental taxes in the tax system: On the possibilities of inserting environmental taxes in the tax and levy system of the Federal Republic of Germany . Nomos, Baden-Baden 1992.
• Bernd Hansjürgens, Gertrude Lübbe-Wolff (ed.): Symbolic environmental policy . Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2000.
• Bernd Hansjürgens: Equivalence Principle and Public Financing . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001.
• Johannes Schiller, Reinhard Manstetten, Bernd Klauer, Philipp Steuer, Herwig Unnerstall, Heidi Wittmer, Bernd Hansjürgens: The challenge of program research. Conception, organization and evaluation of problem-oriented environmental research . Metropolis, Marburg 2006.
• Bernd Hansjürgens, Nele Lienhoop: What nature is worth to us: Potentials of economic evaluation . Metropolis, Marburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-7316-1144-8 .

Web links

• Profile on the side of the UFZ
• Chair of Environmental Economics at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Natural Capital Germany - TEEB DE: About the economic value of nature for humans. Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research, accessed on August 14, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Soil Protection Commission of the UBA , accessed on November 9, 2017.
3. ↑ Members of the Senate Evaluation Committee ( Memento of the original dated November 10, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF) accessed on November 9, 2017.